On being blinded with science Being a ruthless enquiry into scientific methods, complete with 29 genuine references and a learned footnote

An example of that rare and delightful phenomenon, the successful scientific hoax, appeared in The Analyst¹ as an account of work on the toxicology of ice, claiming to emanate from the Bureau of Chemical Investigation of the New York State police; and the story is that it was slipped past the editors of The Analyst by a disgruntled abstractor under notice. Such horseplay is very rare in the respectable world of modern scientific publication.